Venture Fund
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New South Wales dangles A$150m spinout fund in front of voters
The state’s Labor government says it will launch an A$150 million spinout investment fund by July next year – but first it has to win the election.
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British Business Bank launches £210m fund for southeast England
The region is home to 17% of the UK’s university spinouts, yet received only 5% of the country’s total equity investments last year.
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Bioshore Ventures closes A$27m Fund I, plots A$50m Fund II
Bioshore Ventures fully deployed Australia’s first medtech fund – backed by surgeons and clinicians who helped assess potential investments – within twelve months.
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Israeli institutions join forces for $500m INBI Core
More than a dozen Israeli universities, institutes, and academic medical centres are launching a $500 million venture fund called INBI Core.
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Spinouts in the north of England to benefit from £150m scale-up fund
The fund will make investments in university spinouts ranging from £5 million to £15 million.
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Zinc launches £70m Science-for-Impact Fund
The British Business Bank will make a cornerstone investment of up to £46 million in the Science-for-Impact Fund.
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Wadi Jeddah readies $10m fund launch
King Abdulaziz University’s commercialisation arm plans to launch a venture fund by early 2027 to invest in local spinouts and startups.
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DGIST launches first fund with ₩2bn
The fund launch comes just four months after DGIST changed its leadership structure to co-CEOs and announced plans for a fund.
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National Tsing Hua University launches NT$1bn NTHU Future Fund
National Tsing Hua University has partnered with Top Taiwan Venture Capital to launch the spinout investment fund.
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Toronto and McMaster form the Genesys University Seed Fund
Managed by Genesys Capital, the fund will invest in early-stage university spinouts and is the latest vehicle to be launched by Canadian institutions.
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Tohoku University Venture Partners launches third fund
The THVP3 Fund has a target size of ¥6 billion, though this could be extended to ¥10 billion if investor interest is high.
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South African universities close ZAR400m UTF II
Stellenbosch University, University of Pretoria, Wits University, and the University of Cape Town have backed the University Technology Fund II.
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University of Nottingham unveils EIS fund
Managed by SyndicateRoom, the University of Nottingham’s new fund makes use of the UK’s Enterprise Investment Scheme.
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Gaia Sciences Innovation raises $100m, partners with Smithsonian
The Smithsonian Institution has joined forces with Gaia Sciences Innovation, which has now raised $100 million in funding.
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University of Sydney hatches plan for venture fund
The university already runs an A$25 preseed fund but is now exploring a much larger investment vehicle for its spinouts.
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SNU Technology Holdings raises ₩5.1bn fund
Seoul National University Technology Holdings has raised a new fund that it will co-manage with accelerator Seoul Frontier Investment.
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Spinout Inspire Fund formally launches with £22.5m
The fund, which has been quietly investing for four months, has publicly launched with £22.5 million in capital.
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Midlands Mindforge secures £30m, begins investing
The firm, created by eight universities in 2023, has made its first investments as it continues fundraising towards its £250 million goal.
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Editorial: I don’t believe Rachel Reeves on spinouts
Oxford accounts for 20% of the UK spinout value. Funding has collapsed. And the BBB’s £150m US strategy is making the problem worse, not better.
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Creator Fund closes $56m fund
Eight months after launching its latest fund with an initial $41 million, Creator Fund has closed the vehicle thanks to support from KfW Capital.
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Berkeley gains Darkmatter Lab for frontier tech
Darkmatter Lab will serve as a cornerstone initiative for a venture fund set to be established by Hivemind Capital.
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Purdue’s agtech studio Dial Ventures achieves first close for Fund II
Purdue University’s agtech venture studio Dial Ventures has achieved a first close of Fund II, which it will use to build the next batch of startups.
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Caltech adds $10m to rebranded Gates Investment Fund
The money for the vehicle formerly known as the Caltech Seed Fund was gifted to the institution by Diane Gates Wallach.
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Engine Ventures plots $500m Scale Up Fund
Engine Ventures, the deep tech investor focused on university ecosystems including MIT and Harvard, is raising a huge new fund, The Next Leap can reveal.
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The fragmentation tax: why Europe’s 124 university venture funds need each other
Europe has billions in university venture capital scattered across isolated vehicles, and the west-east divide is crushing opportunity for everyone.
